Chapter 84Happiness

CHEERFULNESS Cheerfulness: a joyous smile of Nature.

* Cheerful endeavour: the joy that one finds in the effort towards the Divine.

* Mental cheerfulness: it knows how to take delight in everything.

* Keep a cheerful mind and a peaceful heart. Let nothing disturb your equanimity and make every day the necessary progress to advance with me steadily towards the goal.

29 October 1934

* Happy heart: smiling, peaceful, wide open, without a shadow.

* You must never forget that you are much more helpful when you are quietly happy than when you become dramatic.

5 October 1932

* Be happy, my child, it is the surest way of progress.

12 April 1934

* useful than to pass on to people the contagion of a true and deep happiness.

25 October 1934

* Try to be happy — immediately you will be closer to the Light.

11 July 1935

* Indeed he is happy who loves the Divine because the Divine is always with him.

7 March 1937

* So many problems have been facing me of late. I wonder how they are to be solved happily.

The only way to a true and lasting happiness is a complete and exclusive reliance on the Divine’s Grace.

19 October 1941

* Always be good and you will always be happy.

13 October 1951

* Let us always do the right thing and we shall always be quiet and happy.

24 May 1954

* Let us seek our happiness only in the Divine.

5 June 1954

* When the Divine grants the true inner happiness nothing in the world has the power to snatch it away.

5 October 1954

* Spiritual happiness: calm and smiling, nothing can disturb it.

* Always remember that on the happiness you give will depend the happiness you get.

2 June 1963

* The happiness you give makes you more happy than the happiness you receive.

4 July 1965

* To be concerned for one’s happiness is the surest way of becoming unhappy.

* If we want to keep our happiness intact and pure, we must do our best not to attract upon it the attention of unfriendly thoughts.

* To be always happy, with an unclouded, unfluctuating happiness — of all things this is the most difficult to accomplish.

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